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Digital Camera World
Digital Camera World
Sebastian Oakley

"Street photography is actually nonsense... and it's so bloody good"

Mike Chudley Street photography is nonsense.

Street photography has long been at the fringes of both art and documentary, a genre born from chance encounters and the decisive moment that can’t be replicated or rehearsed.

At its best, it captures the texture of public life – the tentative glances, the accidental symmetry, the humour and sorrow that unfold when no one knows a shutter is about to click.

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